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<p><a href="http://pubmed.gov">Pubmed.gov</a> gets 181 hits (21 of them free online) for the search: sexism and health and determinants; and 199 hits (24 free full text) for: racism and health and determinants. Pubmed is a highly technical and scholarly database, and most of its results will not link you to full text unless you access it at a large medical or very large academic library - via a proxy or "link resolver" that takes you to any journal that the library subscribes to. For example, at University of Maryland, our "Researchport" lets you find Pubmed "By database name", so that when you click on a title in your search results list, the full abstract record has a bright yellow "Find it" button that links you to online if we subscribe, or print if that is all we have, or Interlibrary Loan if we don't get the journal in any format.</p>
<p>If you are near a large public academic library, you can very likely get a free guest password to search online journals and databases. For this search, there are quite a number that may help, but for quickest access to full text, major ones would include Academic Search Premier (or Complete, in the largest libraries), ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and JSTOR. Academic Search lets you limit to "scholarly/peer reviewed" journals, either before OR after you do a search. It defaults to search of author, title, journal title, subjects, and abstracts. You can do a search such as: racism and health and determinants in this default search. But if you "Select a field" TX all text, you may need to use "Proximity search" to find articles that have the words close together (and thus more related to each other). For example, TX racism n50 health n50 determinants would find at least one place in each article where the words are no more than 50 words away from each other (including vertical distance in text). The smaller the number, the fewer hits you will get. Most libraries let Academic search default to "Advanced search", where you can use the drop down menu to "Select a field". This search has 3 boxes to put words into, but it works fine to do the entire search all in one box - it scrolls to take maybe 240 characters.</p>
<p>ScienceDirect, Springerlink, and JSTOR are ALL scholarly, and all default to full text. But you can choose "Citation and abstract", or title-keyword-abstract if you use advanced search. JSTOR has very few abstracts, so your practical choice is either the default full text, or title. Its proximity search follows the pattern: "racism health determinants"~50, which gets 44 articles(number of JSTOR hits may vary depending upon a university's subscription "package"). ScienceDirect would be sexism w/50 health w/50 determinants (14 hits); sexism w/20 health w/20 determinants gets 4 articles. SpringerLink does not have proximity search.</p>
<p>Bear in mind that many publishers let you SEARCH their journals free on the web, but charge a high fee for ordering full text PDFs (often $30 or more per article). Two of the above databases do this: springerlink.com and sciencedirect.com. But since you can't get the full text without paying for it, you would be better off using <a href="http://scholar.google.com">Google Scholar</a>, because it searches those 2 and hundreds of other publisher's databases. Google does not allow us to "force" proximity search, but its "relevance ranking" takes proximity into account. Once you found good articles based on these free searches, you could use any nearby public library to order items on interlibrary loan.</p>
<p>Finally, you can get into more free sites by limiting a Google search to site:gov, site:edu, site:ac.uk, etc. to get into academic sites that have digital repositories or other full text reports. <a href="http://search.usa.gov">Search.usa.gov</a> finds STATE as well as federal websites, documents, reports, etc.</p>
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housingqueerphobiaracismsexismsocial determinants of healthtransphobiaFri, 12 Aug 2011 06:24:49 +0000jim miller3371 at http://radicalreference.infoQUESTION: Oppressions as social determinants of healthhttp://radicalreference.info/question/question-oppressions-social-determinants-health
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<p>Can anyone recommend good books/articles/essays that outline why queerphobia, transphobia, sexism &amp; racism and/or unstable housing are social determinants of health?</p>
<p>I work for a non-profit health agency and this info would be useful to radicalize our programs. </p>
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http://radicalreference.info/question/question-oppressions-social-determinants-health#commentshousingqueerphobiaracismsexismsocial determinants of healthtransphobiaTue, 19 Jul 2011 14:47:52 +00003314 at http://radicalreference.infoANSWER: Sexism in reality television statisticshttp://radicalreference.info/node/2723
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<p>To get free sites on the Web, you can try <a href="http://usasearch.gov">USAsearch.gov</a> for state as well as federal websites, reports, studies, hearings, etc. Possible searches would include: "reality tv" sexist (3 hits), "reality tv" sexism (2 hits); and "reality shows" profit* (50 hits). USAsearch seems to be a bit more predictable with the * (truncation) than Google is. Compare <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22reality+shows%22+profit*+site%3Agov&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">Google's only 44 hits for: "reality shows" profit* site:gov</a> but 70 for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22reality+shows%22+profitability+site%3Agov&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">"reality shows" profitability site:gov</a></p>
<p>You can also use site:edu to try to get more "official" or at least better documented information. Google gets at least 345 unique hits for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22reality+shows%22+profitability+site%3Aedu&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">"reality shows" profitability trends site:edu</a> and 14 for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22reality+shows%22+%22average+revenue%22+site%3Aedu&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">"reality shows" "average revenue" site:edu</a>. These site:edu, site:ac.uk, sites may also have a lot more research on sociological issues such as sexism, racism, or stereotypes in general. For example, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22reality+shows%22+sexist+site%3Aedu&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">"reality shows" sexist site:edu</a> gets 137 unique hits in Google. We do have to beware that "site:edu" does not guarantee scholarship. Many students and staff are quite free to have their own blogs or personal websites hosted on a university server, and "peer review" is definitely not the rule for such sites.</p>
<p>If you are near an academic or large public library, there will almost certainly be onsite access to commercial full-text databases. If you "Select a Field" TX-All Text, in its Advanced search, Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) gets 35 hits for the search: "reality shows" and sexis*, and 33 for: "reality shows" and profitability; Business Source Complete gets 57 for: "reality shows" and profitability. Very many academic libraries will give you onsite access to the very scholarly full text journal database JSTOR. There are many options for JSTOR, and only the very largest places can afford the entire package. Here at University of Maryland, our JSTOR package gets 20 hits for the search: "reality shows" AND stereotyp* and 9 for: "reality shows" AND sexis*. There are many other possible databases, notably Communication &amp; Mass Media, SocIndex, Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index), and even ScienceDirect because of its very large body of full text.</p>
<p>Jim Miller<br />
jmiller2@umd.edu</p>
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Reality showsReality TVsexismTV programmingTV statisticsFri, 14 Aug 2009 08:05:54 +0000jim miller2723 at http://radicalreference.infoQUESTION: sexism in reality television statisticshttp://radicalreference.info/node/2713
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<p>Does anyone have any statistics about the destructive, sexist stereotypes projected by reality television? Or any idea of how much profit media conglomerates make off of reality television (through ads, ratings, etc)?<br />
Thanks and peace! </p>
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http://radicalreference.info/node/2713#commentsAnsweredsexismtelevisionMon, 27 Jul 2009 19:41:24 +00002713 at http://radicalreference.info